The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-08

our readers who knew old, repul-
sive, muddy, tumble-down Decatur,
TO read such as this. Old Decatur
Is very small part of suburb of
the new city. In very short time
when you go to Decatur you will
quit the cars half mile beyond the
present pie-stand that stands in
lieu of a depot, at the
NEW UNION DEPOT.
1t is commodious and conEen-
lent structure, standing just behind
the site for the 100000 hotel, for
which the excavation is already
complete, and within a short dis
lance of the $4,000 hotel now just
approaching completion. The bus
mess part of the city lies right here,
and one cap hardly wedge through
the workmen and wagons snd lum-
Der and brick and stone--a perfect
whirl of rushing activity. The
prodigality with which money is
being spent looks as if the Count of
| Monte Cristo had opened his treas
ure box there, and that some tabled
Genie With magic trowel had carved
out city from chaos il G night.
Standing at the head Of Grant street
! the beholder looks down broad ave-
nues and drives, whited with ce-
mented gravel anG cprbed with
Giles county stone, IN every direc
tloD, and sees house after house
looming into proportions and hears
the clank of trowel and the rafting
of timbere and the hum of voices
| and the rush and rum BILE Of wagons,
and the Naturalization of the
STREET CAR BILLS.
| Hear tbe janglipg Of the bells.
street car bellsl
What q rush of business theft grating mu-
| sic telsi
Hear them ringing, jinging, tinging--
Hear them whanging, banging, janging-
| At the corner of each street.
! See him jerk the bell strap, hear it
Bing-bang bingbang! as you near it
Hear the ruSh of busy feetl
| The jarring and the grating Of tie BELLS,
The breaking, crac king piping of the bells,
| Hear the screaking calculations
4 OF tho Sells,
Bust ness beiis,
Street car bellsi
The street cars made their first
trip last Friday. 1t was a great
day in Decatur. 1t is the rising of
the sun of business on the new city
that was spoke into being less than
a year ago by the daring genius of
MAJ. {. 9. GORDON,
the president of the Decatur Land
Co, When others slept and pc )ple
laughed when Decatur was men
toned, Mag. Gordon's sagacity,
with the prescience of 8 seer, paint
ed a new city on the map. He sci
quietly about buying the lands, and
one morning the world was startled
with the encouragement that Cor
don had founded city. A man OF
broad discernnent, quick, expedi
tjous, daring IS Richard, with
firm reliance in hie own judgment
and the nerve to bank on it, he
went out into apparent CIVIC cnaos
and declared ''there shall be city"
and 10, it is. The country has
known much of the Gordons for
years. They build railroads with
the easy facility with which ordina-
! ry men fence out new country
roads. They are born leaders among
men. In war, in civil life, in poll
tics, IN business, they &C in front
1t was indeed a wonderful sagacity
that foresaw a city in Decatur, and
a leonine courage that enabled the
discoverer to stake his name and
his fortune on it's construction.
But SO il is. DecstEr goes rapid
ly up. A besutifui plszza laid OF
like garden into symmetrical lines
and angles and built with wealth